Animal production and animal science worldwide: WAAP book of the year 2006: A Review on Developments and Research in Livestock Systems PDF
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Animal production and animal science worldwide WAAP book of the year 2006 World Association for Animal Production ningen Academic b l i s h e r s Animal production and animal science worldwide Project and Co-ordination: A. Rosati Authors: Ajmone-Marsan P., Bagnato A., Bazer F.W., Blasco A., Brand T.S., Brown P.A., Campeneere De S. , Cloete S.W.P., Cooper R.G., Cromie A., De Boever J. , de Brabander D. , de Figueirêdo Freitas V.J., Delgado C., Draghia-Akli R., Edwards S.A., Ehui S., Elbeltagy A., Fiems L., Freeman A.H., Galal S., Gaughan J.B., Gibon A., Gigli S., Hernández P., Iacurto M., Ibeagha-Awemu E.M., Iqbal A., Jan H., Jemeljanovs A., Jones W., Juskiene V., Kawashima T., Keady T.W.J., Khan A.S., Khatib H., Lipkin E., Malek M., Mcleod A., Mihina S., Oba G., O'Donovan M., Okike I., Pascual J.J., Peters K.J., Pyman M.F., Renaville B., Renaville R., Rola A., Rola W., Rosati A., Rosell J., Saastamoinen M.T., Schiavini F., Scott N.R., Sloszar P., Sorensen J.T., Spencer T.E., Sundrum A., Sung Woo K., Szabo F., Tewolde A., Thornton P.K., Tiongco M., Todorov N., Van de Steeg J.A., Vicente J.-S., Vicién C., Wagenhoffer Z., Wenk C., Wu G., Yano H., Yin Yu-L., Zhao X., Zimbelman R.G. WAAP, Via Tomassetti n. 3, 00161 Rome, Italy [email protected] Animal production and animal science worldwide WAAP book of the year 2006 A Review on Developments and Research in Livestock Systems Edited by A. Rosati, A. Tewolde and C. Mosconi WWaaggeenniinnggeenn AAccaaddeemmiicc PPPP uuuu bbbbb llll iiii ssssss hhhh eeeeee rrrr ssssss World Association for Animal Production This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned. Nothing from this publication may be translated, reproduced, stored in a computerised system or published in any form or in any manner, ISBN: 978-90-8686-034-0 including electronic, mechanical, reprographic or e-ISBN: 978-90-8686-615-1 photographic, without prior written permission from DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-615-1 the publisher, Wageningen Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, the Netherlands, www.WageningenAcademic.com ISSN 1574-1125 The individual contributions in this publication and any liabilities arising from them remain the First published, 2007 responsibility of the authors. The publisher is not responsible for possible damages, © Wageningen Academic Publishers which could be a result of content derived from this The-Netherlands, 2007 publication. xfgn Table of Contents Introduction Andrea Rosati Section 1 - Development of Livestock Systems Development of livestock systems in Africa: challenges and recent achievements..................3 Simeon Ehui & Ihienacho Okike Animal production in the USA: the role of science. A historical perspective of Animal Science Societies ...............................................................................15 Robert G. Zimbelman Development of production systems in Asia..............................................................................19 Tomoyuki Kawashima & Hideo Yano Development of production systems in Europe.........................................................................25 (cid:138)tefan Mihina, Jan Huba, Kurt J. Peters, Sandra A. Edwards, Jan Tind Sorensen, Annick Gibon, Aleksandrs Jemeljanovs, Violeta Juskiene, Ferenc Szabo, Piotr Sloszar & Nikolai Todorov Section 2 - Achievements of Research Achievement of research in the field of molecular genetics.....................................................37 Alessandro Bagnato, Hasan Khatib, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Fausta Schiavini & Ehud Lipkin Achievements of research in the field of ruminant nutrition....................................................49 Daniºl De Brabander, Leo Fiems, Johan De Boever & Sam De Campeneere Achievements of research in the field of animal growth and development ............................59 Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Amir S. Khan & Patricia A. Brown Achievements of research in the field of immunology and endochrinology............................67 BØnØdicte Renaville & Robert Renaville Achievements of research in the field of meat quality..............................................................77 Miriam Iacurto & Sergio Gigli Achievements of research in the field of livestock systems......................................................95 Albert Sundrum Achievements of research in the field of pasture and forage.................................................107 Andrew Cromie, Tim W.J. Keady & Michael O’Donovan Achievements of research in the field of dairy cattle ............................................................. 115 Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu & Xin Zhao Achievements of research in the field of beef cattle...............................................................127 Zsombor Wagenhoffer Achievements of research in the field of swine...................................................................... 135 Caspar Wenk & Massoud Malek Achievements of research in the field of sheep and goats.................................................... 153 Vicente JosØ de FigueirŒdo Freitas Achievements of research in the field of horse .......................................................................163 Markku T. Saastamoinen Achievements of research in the field of camelids..................................................................167 Arshad Iqbal Achievement of research in the field of buffalo production in Egypt ....................................177 Salah Galal & Ahmed Elbeltagy Achievements of research in the field of ostrich production................................................. 189 Tertius S. Brand & Schalk W.P. Cloete Achievements of research in the field of rabbits.................................................................... 195 Juan JosØ Pascual, Agust(cid:237)n Blasco, Pilar HernÆndez, Joan Rosell & JosØ-Salvador Vicente Section 3 - Contemporary Issues Current status of research in animal biotechnology: a global outlook...................................207 Wendelyn Jones & Assefaw Tewolde Future scenarios of livestock systems in developing countries..............................................219 Ade H. Freeman, Philip K. Thornton, Jeannette A. van de Steeg & Anni Mcleod Regulatory issues for the release into the environment of genetically modified animals.......................................................................................... 233 Carmen ViciØn Biometeorology and animal science........................................................................................ 239 John B. Gaughan An example of livestock intensification and the role of smallholders: Philippines hog and poultry sectors.............................................................249 Agnes Rola, Walfredo Rola, Marites Tiongco & Christopher Delgado Dairy crossbreeding to improve health and reproductive performance................................ 263 Michael F. Pyman Impact of nanoscale technologies in animal management................................................... 283 Norman R. Scott Global ostrich industry: current state and future possible developments............................ 293 Ross G. Cooper New developments in amino acid research............................................................................ 299 Guoyao Wu, Fuller W. Bazer, Thomas E. Spencer, Yu-Long Yin & Sung Woo Kim Challenges and opportunities for pastoralism in Africa. Degrading rangelands or maintaining resilience? ................................................................................317 Gufu Oba Section 4 - Statistics Chapter 1 - Livestock population..............................................................................................331 Chapter 2 - Livestock production..............................................................................................341 Chapter 3 - Human population and resources........................................................................ 358 Chapter 4 - Supplies per caput/per year and economics....................................................... 364
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